I understand some of the critiques of the issues of the book but at the same time 'Utopia' was written 500 years ago, in an age of very different cultural norms, where stating ideas about things like the rights of women and children, was not only highly unsual, it was extremely dangerous. In regards to religious freedom, More himself, though made into a saint after his death, had his own very deep misgivings about protestants and considered them heretics, as was the cultural norm of the time. He was of course executed for not only defending the Catholic church, defying Henry VIII's wishes to allow him a divorce, but also for these prejudices, which made him an enemy of Henry VIII's Church of England.